Your thoughts are making you.

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

So there is a natural efficiency that you pick up as you can prioritize capital across a bigger set of opportunities.

My forces are not enfeebled, I find no decay in my strength; my provisions are not cut off, I find no abhorring in mine appetite; my counsels are not corrupted nor infatuated, I find no false apprehensions to work upon mine understanding; and yet they see that invisibly, and I feel that insensibly, the disease prevails.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.